We Asked ChatGPT to Review Robert Downey Jr.’s Broadway Debut in the AI Drama McNeal
But the emotional stakes of the play are often too distant for us to really cling to. While McNeal tackles up-to-the-minute themes on a grand scale, the result feels like a chatbot’s attempt to write a review of a theater production it never saw, all head, little heart. Regardless, Akhtar still makes important points about art being a uniquely human invention that connects the masses, and how computer-generated creations may be able to come close, but they could never replicate the same relationship.
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